Author Interview: Helena Dolny – Before Forever After

Author Interview: Helena Dolny – Before Forever After

What gets people talking about death in ways that make them feel more powerfully alive?  Author Helena Dolny’s quest for an answer and belief that we need to talk about living and dying inspired an eight-year learning journey and resulted in Before Forever After, a...
Book Reviews: Devil’s Paradise, Or Verander Jou Verwoerd

Book Reviews: Devil’s Paradise, Or Verander Jou Verwoerd

By DRIES BRUNT & ROB HOFMEYR   Under Devil’s Peak by Gavin Cooper          9 Verander Jou Kop by Stephan Joubert      4 Verwoerd by Henry Kenney                        7 Sweet Paradise by Joanne Hichens            6   Through Under Devil’s Peak,...
Books: Extract – The Last Horseman by David Gilman

Books: Extract – The Last Horseman by David Gilman

CHAPTER ONE   It was a foul night to hang a man. The rain swept across the Irish Sea, throwing itself against the grey stone walls of Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison. Behind its unyielding façade two prison guards stood outside the condemned man’s cell. The number was...
Books: Extract From Bone Meal For Roses By Miranda Sherry

Books: Extract From Bone Meal For Roses By Miranda Sherry

PART ONE: MOUSE-BABY AND THE METAL-HAIRED MAN   CHAPTER ONE   According to what she’s gathered from watching television, Poppy is a person. She’s got two arms, two legs and the right number of things on her face, all arranged correctly. But Poppy’s not...